Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

by George Breitman (Editor)

Overview

Malcolm X Speaks contains the major speeches of one of the most important leaders of the Black revolution. Malcolm X  was one of the great orators of our time, delivering countless speeches about the Black experience in America, police brutality, voting rights, and more. His work as an activist changed the course of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and continues to heavily influence activists to this day. “All but one of the speeches were made in those last eight months of his life after his break with the Black Muslims when he was seeking a new path. In their pages one can begin to understand his power as a speaker and to see the political legacy he left his people in its struggle for emancipation. Over and over again in simple imagery, savagely uncompromising, he drove home the real truth.” –I.F. Stone, The New York Review of Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802132130
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/11/1994
Edition description:	1st Grove Weidenfeld Evergreen ed
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	202,269
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

MALCOLM X (1925 – 1965) was a civil rights leader, human rights activist, and vocal champion for Black liberation in the United States. 

GEORGE BREITMAN (1916 – 1986) was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party. He published Malcolm X Speaks in 1965.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
I.	Message to the Grass Roots: November 10, 1963, Detroit	3
II.	A Declaration of Independence: March 12, 1964, New York City	18
III.	The Ballot or the Bullet: April 3, 1964, Cleveland	23
IV.	The Black Revolution: April 8, 1964, New York City	45
V.	Letters from Abroad: April 20, 1964, Jedda, Saudi Arabia May 10, 1964, Lagos, Nigeria May 11, 1964, Accra, Ghana	58
VI.	The Harlem "Hate-Gang" Scare: May 29, 1964, New York City	64
VII.	Appeal to African Heads of State: July 17, 1964, Cairo, Egypt	72
VIII.	At the Audubon: December 13, 1964, New York City	88
IX.	With Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: December 20, 1964, New York City	105
X.	At the Audubon: December 20, 1964, New York City	115
XI.	To Mississippi Youth: December 31, 1964, New York City	137
XII.	Prospects for Freedom in 1965: January 7, 1965, New York City	147
XIII.	After the Bombing: February 14, 1965, Detroit	157
XIV.	Confrontation with an "Expert": February 18, 1965, New York City	178
XV.	Last Answers and Interviews: A selection of statements made in interviews and meetings between November 23, 1964, and February 21, 1965, the last three months of Malcolm X's life	194

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Malcolm X Speaks

“Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is a complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary.” —Malcolm X, December 20, 1964

“All but one of the speeches were made in those last eight months of his life after his break with the Black Muslims when he was seeking a new path. In their pages one can begin to understand his power as a speaker and to see the political legacy he left his people in its struggle for emancipation. Over and over again in simple imagery, savagely uncompromising, he drove home the real truth.” —I.F. Stone, The New York Review of Books

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